This book by the noted scholar of Latin literature about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and professor of classical philology at the University of Vilnius, Dr. habil. Eugenija Ulčinaitė, is devoted to a specific literary genre – ceremonial greetings (gratulationes) with which the grand dukes and nobles of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were honored on their arrival in Vilnius. The book contains four 16th-18th century facsimiles in the original Latin (with translations into Lithuanian) of greetings to the kings of Poland and the grand dukes of Lithuania Stephen Bathory, Sigismund Vasa, and Wladyslaw Vasa, and to the nobleman and bishop Krzystof Jan Szembek.
The preface, introductory article, and illustration captions are in Lithuanian, English and Polish.
ISBN 978-609-95074-9-1